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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3099436, member: 39&quot;]Liberation, ha. These days some people complain about coin issues being too &quot;correct&quot; - well, this coin was pretty much the contrary. The piece refers to the early end of the occupation which was scheduled to end in 1934. But the allied forces agreed on an early end in June 1930.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the occupation mostly by Belgian and French forces, which was supposed to guarantee the reparation payments, was considered to be humiliating by many Germans. Once it ended, one possible attitude could have been a spirit of cooperation - but this coin is a fine example of pretty much the contrary: &quot;Der Rhein, Deutschlands Strom, nicht Deutschlands Grenze&quot; (The Rhine, Germany&#039;s river, not Germany&#039;s border) was written by Ernst Moritz Arndt during the Napoleonic Wars more than 100 years before. Putting that slogan on a German coin in 1930 may have sounded like a threat ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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